Sun Chemical to Showcase Packaging Capabilities During PAC TO THE FUTURE

During the Packaging Consortium’s PAC TO THE FUTURE event in Niagara Falls, Canada on Sept. 28-29, Sun Chemical will show how its packaging capabilities can help brand owners achieve their goals in lightweighting, consumer interactivity, shelf standout, extended shelf life, color consistency, brand protection and more.
 
Russell Schwartz, Sun Chemical’s CTO, will be a speaker at the event, and will talk about key technological advances in material science, including electronic materials and computational power, that will enable a new generation of packaging options for brand owners that best benefit consumer trends and societal influences.
 
“Having our chief technology officer speak at an important event like this that focuses strongly on the packaging of the future, speaks volumes about Sun Chemical’s commitment to brand owners and the packaging market,” said Rod Staveley, president of Sun Chemical Canada. “Sun Chemical is a key leader in innovation and technology advancement for the packaging industry. We invest millions in research and development to bring quality solutions that will help brand owners achieve their packaging goals.”
 
Sun Chemical’s wide range of coatings will be on display during the event, including a variety of options for satin, matte and gloss printing, in addition to its SunInspire sensory coatings line, which offer special effects that allow a customers’ product packaging to stand out on store shelves visually through high luster metallic, fluorescent, glitter, pearlescent, as well as iridescent finishes. SunInspire tactile coatings, ranging from coarse and gritty to soft and smooth, appeal to the sense of touch.
 
Designed to enable lightweighting of packaging by removing EVOH polymer layers from packaging, as well as offering improved laminate flexibility, Sun Chemical’s SunBar oxygen barrier coatings provide a smooth, homogenous, pinhole-free layer that can be easily overprinted with inks and laminated to a variety of secondary films. SunBar is cost-effective, recyclable and biodegradable.
 
Sun Chemical’s SunLase laser marking solutions is a coating that enables brand owners to add content to both secondary and primary packaging information after the filling and closure of the pack.
 
Sun Chemical’s SunColorBox toolkit offers a range of services from consulting, the visualization of a brand’s digital colors with proofs and a digital handbook with color standards.
 
Booth visitors will also learn how Sun Chemical can help brand owners explore brand protection options to ensure the integrity of their packaging. Sun Chemical offers a variety of security ink solutions, including an infrared coding solution called Verigard, a security system that adds a small quantity of taggants, or chemical markers, to inks, varnishes or coatings for use in any print process on any substrate.